November 15 in History

Historical Events on November 15

1760 The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

1777 American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1864 American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

1943 The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps"

1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

2012 Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

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Famous Birthdays on November 15

1886 René Guénon

1891 W. Averell Harriman

1891 Erwin Rommel

1987 Isaiah Osbourne

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Famous Deaths on November 15

1630 Johannes Kepler

1908 Empress Dowager Cixi

1917 Émile Durkheim

1996 Alger Hiss

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